New Products at ISAC!
Happy Thursday friends! After a CRAZY couple of months things are getting back to normal here at ISAC. Since there are no guest instructors or cake shows to write about this week, I am excited to share some really fun new products that I think you all will just love! Let’s start with our two…
Pastry Live!
Pastry Live 5 Photo Blog Hiya friends! It has been a long while since I have done a photo blog, and I thought it would be a great idea to have one this week to share all of the amazing things we saw at Pastry Live this week. With all of the yummy cakes, chocolate,…
Flavors of the World: Spice it up!
Photo courtesy of realfood.tesco.com Spice Up Your Life! Summer is heating up with a too hot to handle edition of Chef Nicholas’ Flavors of the World! This week our dear chef shares his thoughts on all kinds of different spices and peppers! And now, I’ll turn things over to Chef Nicholas: My love of spices…
Tis the season for Gingerbread?
It’s never too soon to start! Last fall I wrote a blog about Chef Nicholas judging the annual National Gingerbread House Competition, hosted by the Omni Grove Park Inn. Well, now it’s late summer a year later, and at ISAC this week Chef Nicholas received a letter asking him to judge the competition again this…
August Roundup
Here at the International Sugar Art Collection we are known for offering very high quality instruction on all manner of sugar arts. Well, this month is no different. In fact, we are busy, busy, busy this August!! The best part is that we have loads of fun classes for you all to take, and it’s…
ICES STARTS TODAY!!
ICES Fun Facts Today is the first day of the 40th annual ICES convention! I thought in honor of this big event, I would share some fun facts about the ICES organization today! Fun Fact #1: The International Cake Exploration Societé was founded in 1976 by Betty Jo Steinman; she was the sponsor of the…
All that glitters…
I’m a big fan of sparkly cakes. Wait, let me start over. I’m a big fan of sparkly everything! When Molly (ISAC’s most famous customer service specialist) suggestion writing a blog on edible sequins, I was totally on board! I started by talking to Chef Nicholas about the methods he shares with his students, searched…
Oriental Stringwork and Isomalt classes!!
This year we have been very lucky to host some amazing guest instructors. Next month, in August, we are offering three amazing classes: Oriental Stringworkand Modeling Chocolate with Chef Joe Cumm, Basket and Bow: and Isomalt Class and Garden Fairy: an Isomalt class with Peggy Tucker. The best part of these classes is the timing….
TruColor Winners- A Day late!
I have to apologize profusely!!! I was supposed to post the winners of the TruColor blog from last week yesterday. Unfortunately, I was writing up this week’s upcoming blog yesterday, and it totally slipped my mind! Sorry, sorry, sorry! Please oh please forgive me! :( Now, would everyone like to know the winners of the…
Truly Terrific TruColor!
Just last month ISAC starting carrying a new product. A pretty spectacular product actually- TruColor Natural Food Color! These food colors come in gel paste powder, paint powder and airbrush powder, and airbrush shine powder. They are also made from natural materials such as fruits, vegetables, seeds, roots, and minerals. It gets better! Trucolor Natural…